West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee confidently asserted her party's dominance in the state, emphasizing, "Elections may come and go, but the Trinamool Congress will continue to hold sway in Bengal."
In a major setback to the Trinamool Congress just before the Lok Sabha elections, the party's veteran leader Roy tendered his resignation from the post as well as from the party on Sunday.
Notably, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple connectivity projects worth Rs. 15,400 crores in Kolkata on March 6.
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi lashed out at the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) during his two-day visit to West Bengal, party leader Kunal Ghosh said that the PM is commenting on the schemes of Bengal as a BJP worker, which is "cheap politics" and "not right."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday came down heavily on the ruling Trinamool Congress, claiming that the "TMC goons and land mafias have been given a free hand for hooliganism in the state," referring to the recent allegation of "sexual abuse" and "land grab" against Shahjahan Sheikh.
In a sharp attack on the ruling Trinamool Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleged that "crime and corruption have flourished under the TMC's misrule in West Bengal."
Reacting to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kolkata on Friday, BJP MP Dilip Ghosh claimed that the TMC supremo is running everywhere to save her party following the arrest of Shahjahan Sheikh, facing accusations of "sexual assault and
Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal regards him as its 'enemy no. 1' because "Modi does not allow them to pursue their own whims, and that's why TMC considers Modi their primary adversary."
Taking on the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal over the Sandeshkhali issue, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the country is enraged over the treatment of the women in Sandeshkhali by the TMC government.
Launching the Bharatiya Janata Party's poll campaign in Mamata Banerjee's turf for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the TMC government is a big hurdle in the empowerment of poor, farmers, youth and women.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers including the party's Mahila Morcha workers and Bhopal Mayor Malti Rai burned an effigy of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday while protesting against the Sandeshkhali incident.